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Welch Center Journal Club Archive

2022-2023
Date Presenter Topic

09/13/22

Natalie Daya Malek "Childhood Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Adult Cardiovascular Events"

09/20/22

Jiaqi Hu "Association of Sugar-Sweetened, Artificially Sweetened, and Unsweetened Coffee Consumption With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality A Large Prospective Cohort Study"
09/27/22 Theresa Boyer "Weight Loss in Underserved Patients - A Cluster-Randomized Trial"

10/04/22

Maomao Guo "Association of Bariatric Surgery With Cancer Risk and Mortality in Adults With Obesity"

10/11/22

Katherine Yang "Long-Term Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet and a Low-Fat Diet (CORDIOPREV): A Randomised Controlled Trial"

10/18/22

Katie McDermott "Trends in Depressive Symptoms and Associated Factors During Residency, 2007 to 2019 A Repeated Annual Cohort Study"

11/01/22

Helen He "Risk Factors, Mortality, and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes"

11/08/22

Caroline Wang "Association Between Gout Flare and Subsequent Cardiovascular Events Among Patients With Gout"

11/15/22

Jieun Lee "Supplemental Vitamin D and Incident Fractures in Midlife and Older Adults"

11/22/22

John Hammond "Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adolescents with Obesity"

11/29/22

Grant Kirby "Long term exposure to low level air pollution and mortality in European cohorts within the ELAPSE project: pooled analysis"

12/06/22

Eyram Bansah "Effect of a Home-Based, Walking Exercise Behavior Change Intervention vs Usual Care on Walking in Adults With Peripheral Artery Disease: The MOSAIC Randomized Clinical Trial"

12/13/22

Dustin Le "Longer-Term All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality With Intensive Blood Pressure Control: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial"

12/20/22

Vrshank Ravi

"Effect of Colonoscopy Screening on Risks of Colorectal Cancer and Related Death"

12/27/22

  No Meeting - Winter Holiday

01/03/23

  No Meeting - Winter Intersession

01/10/23

  No Meeting - Winter Intersession

01/17/23

  No Meeting - Winter Intersession

01/24/23

Audrey Ting Associations Between Procrastination and Subsequent Health Outcomes Among University Students in Sweden

01/31/23

Monica Jia Dietary Protein Sources, Mediating Biomarkers, and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes: Findings From the Women’s Health Initiative and the UK Biobank

02/07/23

Ning Meng Chlorthalidone vs. Hydrochlorothiazide for Hypertension–Cardiovascular Events

02/14/23

Asma Rayani Head Injury and Long-term Mortality Risk in Community-Dwelling Adults

02/21/23

Vrshank Ravi Predictive Accuracy of Stroke Risk Prediction Models Across Black and White Race, Sex, and Age Groups

02/28/23

 

No Meeting

03/07/23

Chenxi Gao

Associations of Unintended Pregnancy With Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

03/14/23

Casey Rebholz and Michael Fang

Comprehensive Exam Q&A Session

03/21/23

 

No Meeting - Spring Break

03/28/23 

Bige Ozkan

Empagliflozin in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

04/04/23

Elizabeth Selvin

Scientific Writing

04/11/23

Elizabeth Selvin Requests for Revision: How to Respond to Peer Review

04/18/23

Eliseo Guallar

Peer Review Perspectives From an Editor

04/25/23

Amelia Wallace

Experience Publishing a Paper – Student Perspective

05/02/23

Michael Fang

How to Be a Peer Reviewer

05/09/23

Nicholas Reed

Epidemiology in the News

05/16/23

Chiadi Ndumele, Tanjala Purnell, and Josef Coresh

Translating Epidemiology into Policy

2021-2022
Date Topic

08/31/21

Trends in Consumption of Ultraprocessed Foods Among US Youths Aged 2-19 Years, 1999-2018

09/07/21

Preliminary Findings of mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine Safety in Pregnant Persons

09/14/21

Body-mass index and obesity in urban and rural China: findings from consecutive nationally representative surveys during 2004–18

09/21/21

Trends in Prevalence of Diabetes and Control of Risk Factors in Diabetes Among US Adults, 1999-2018

09/28/22

Epidemiologic Trends in Fatal and Nonfatal Firearm Injuries in the US, 2009-2017

10/05/21

Comparative Effectiveness and Harms of Antibiotics for Outpatient Diverticulitis

10/12/21

Assessing the Association Between Social Gatherings and COVID-19 Risk Using Birthdays

10/19/21

Association Between Electronic Patient Symptom Reporting With Alerts and Potentially Avoidable Urgent Care Visits After Ambulatory Cancer Surgery

10/26/21

Effect of Salt substitution on Cardiovascular events and Death

11/02/21

Antibiotics for lower respiratory tract infection in children presenting in primary care in England (ARTIC PC): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial

11/09/21

Initial treatment with a single pill containing quadruple combination of quarter doses of blood pressure medicines versus standard dose monotherapy in patients with hypertension (QUARTET): a phase 3, randomised, double-blind, active-controlled trial

11/16/21

Maintenance or Discontinuation of Antidepressants in Primary Care

11/23/21

How to Deliver Effective Presentations
Speaker: Elizabeth Selvin

11/30/21

Race, Genetic Ancestry, and Estimating Kidney Function in CKD

12/07/21

Postdiagnosis Smoking Cessation and Reduced Risk for Lung Cancer Progression and Mortality

12/14/21

Changes in exposure to ambient fine particulate matter after relocating and long term survival in Canada: quasi-experimental study

12/21/21

Coffee Consumption and Incident Tachyarrhythmias Reported Behavior, Mendelian Randomization, and Their Interactions

12/28/21

No Meeting - Winter Holiday

01/04/22

No Meeting - Winter Intersession

01/11/22

No Meeting - Winter Intersession

01/18/22

No Meeting - Winter Intersession

01/25/22

Myocarditis after BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccine against Covid-19 in Israel

02/01/22

A Clinical Decision Tool for Selection of Patients With Symptomatic Cholelithiasis for Cholecystectomy Based on Reduction of Pain and a Pain-Free State Following Surgery

02/08/22

Association of bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy with all cause and cause specific mortality: population based cohort study

02/15/22

Fractional Flow Reserve–Guided PCI as Compared with Coronary Bypass Surgery

02/22/22

Review of Comprehensive Exams
Speaker: Casey Rebholz

03/01/22

Association of Mental Stress–Induced Myocardial Ischemia With Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease

03/08/22

Analysis of Platelet Count and New Cancer Diagnosis Over a 10-Year Period

03/15/22

Association of Rivaroxaban vs Apixaban With Major Ischemic or Hemorrhagic Events in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

03/22/22

No Meeting - Spring Break

03/29/22

Comparative Effectiveness of an Automated Text Messaging Service for Monitoring COVID-19 at Home

04/05/22

Scientific Writing
Speaker: Elizabeth Selvin

04/12/22

Surviving the Peer Review Process
Speaker: Elizabeth Selvin

04/19/22

Peer Review Perspectives from Authors
Speakers: Mary Rooney and Hyunju Kim

04/26/22

Epi in the News
Moderator: Scott Mu

05/03/22

Peer Review Perspectives from an Editor
Speaker: Eliseo Guallar

05/10/22

Experience Publishing a Paper – Student Perspective
Speaker: Amelia Wallace
05/17/22  
2020-2021
Date Presenter Topic

09/01/20

Elizabeth Selvin

"Obesity and Mortality Among Patients Diagnosed With COVID-19: Results From an Integrated Health Care Organization"

09/08/20

Alessandro Orlando

"Association Between Plant and Animal Protein Intake and Overall and Cause-Specific Mortality"

09/15/20

Mike Fang

"Hospitalization and Mortality among Black Patients and White Patients with Covid-19"

09/22/20

Bige Ozkan

"Weight Loss in Underserved Patients - A Cluster-Randomized Trial"

09/29/20

Amelia Wallace

"Acute Cardiovascular Events Associated With Influenza in Hospitalized Adults"

10/06/20

Valerie Sullivan

"Training for a First-Time Marathon Reverses Age-Related Aortic Stiffening"

10/13/20

Heather Zhao

"Preterm birth and risk of type 1 and type 2 diabetes: a national cohort study"

10/20/20

Laura Skow

"Trends in Blood Pressure Control Among US Adults With Hypertension, 1999-2000 to 2017-2018"

10/27/20

Scott Mu

"Pre-operative N-Terminal Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide and Cardiovascular Events After Noncardiac Surgery: A Cohort Study"

11/03/20

Grace Zheng

"Effects of Diet versus Gastric Bypass on Metabolic Function in Diabetes"

11/10/20

Fernando Mijares

"Discriminative Accuracy of Plasma Phospho-tau217 for Alzheimer Disease vs Other Neurodegenerative Disorder"

11/17/20

Yong Zeng

"Systolic Blood Pressure and Risk of Valvular Heart Disease"

11/24/20

Elizabeth Selvin

How to Deliver an Effective Presentation

12/01/20

Zach Newton

"Cardiovascular Events and Costs With Home Blood Pressure Telemonitoring and Pharmacist Management for Uncontrolled Hypertension"

12/08/20

Jaime Ransohoff

"Association of Physician Education and Feedback on Hypertension Management With Patient Blood Pressure and Hypertension Control."

12/15/20

Shutong Du

"Novel Risk Factors for Progression of Diabetic and Nondiabetic CKD: Findings From the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study"

12/22/20

Kathryn Foti

"Association Between Plant-Based Dietary Patterns andRisk of Type 2 Diabetes:A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis"

12/29/20

No Meeting - Winter Holiday

01/05/21

No Meeting - Winter Intersession

01/12/21

No Meeting - Winter Intersession

01/19/21

No Meeting - Winter Intersession

01/26/21

Danielle Farrington

"Dapagliflozin in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease"

 

02/02/21

Vedika Karandikar

"Association of Blood Pressure Lowering With Incident Dementia or Cognitive Impairment, A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis"

02/09/21

Lauren Bernard

"Colchicine in Patients with Chronic Coronary Disease"

02/16/21

Yipin Han

"Lifestyle Intervention With or Without Lay Volunteers to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes in People With Impaired Fasting Glucose and/or Nondiabetic Hyperglycemia A Randomized Clinical Trial"

02/23/21

Jiaqi Hu

"Estimates of the Association of Dementia With US Mortality Levels Using Linked Survey and Mortality Records"

03/02/21

Brief overview of comprehensive exam, part B &
Conversations with Welch Center Faculty: How to Find a Research Topic

03/09/21

Francesca Marino

"Alcohol Abstinence in Drinkers with Atrial Fibrillation"

03/16/21

Scott Mu

"Association of Metabolic Surgery With Major Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity"

03/23/21

William He

"Polygenic Risk, Fitness, and Obesity in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study"

03/30/21

No Meeting - Break Day

04/06/21

Donghan Su

"Association of Nonfasting vs Fasting Lipid Levels With Risk of Major Coronary Events in the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial–Lipid Lowering Arm"

04/13/21

Elizabeth Selvin

Publishing a scientific paper

04/20/21

Mike Fang

Reviewing recently published paper and experience with the peer-review process

04/27/21

Eliseo Guallar

Insights from a journal editor

05/04/21

Mary Rooney & Hyunju Kim

Reviewing recently published paper and experience with the peer-review process

05/11/21

Elizabeth Selvin

Surviving the peer review process

05/18/21

Elizabeth Selvin & Frank Lin

Epidemiology in the news & media training

2019-2020
Date Presenter Topic
09/03/19 Elizabeth Selvin "Association of Step Volume and Intensity With All-Cause Mortality in Older Women."
09/10/19 Amelia Wallace "Association Between Educational Attainment and Causes of Death Among White and Black US Adults, 2010-2017."
09/17/19 Kathryn Foti "Association Between Soft Drink Consumption and Mortality in 10 European Countries."
09/24/19 Mike Fang "Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet Supplemented with Extra-Virgin Olive Oil or Nuts"
10/01/19 Hloni Bookholane  "History of Childhood Kidney Disease and Risk of Adult End-Stage Renal Disease"
10/08/19 Alessandro Orlando "Association of Lifestyle and Genetic Risk With Incidence of Dementia"
10/15/19 Mariana Sbaraini  "Association of Metabolic Surgery With Major Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity"
10/22/19 Olive Tang "Effect of Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure on Cardiovascular Outcomes."
10/29/19 Frances Wang "Polypill for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in an Underserved Population."
11/05/19 Kirsten Evans "Association between maternal adherence to healthy lifestyle practices and risk of obesity in offspring: results from two prospective cohort studies of mother-child pairs in the United States."
11/12/19 Masako Horino  "Association Among Dietary Supplement Use, Nutrient Intake, and Mortality Among U.S. Adults."
11/19/19 Flor Alvarado  "Association of Medicaid Expansion With Cardiovascular Mortality."
11/26/19 Yang Yin  "Changes in Plant-Based Diet Quality and Total and Cause-Specific Mortality"
12/03/19 Mengkun Chen "Comprehensive comparative effectiveness and safety of first-line antihypertensive drug classes: a systematic, multinational, large-scale analysis."
12/10/19 Moira Differding "Neurodegenerative disease mortality among former professional soccer players."
12/17/19 Mary Rooney "Large-scale assessment of a smartwatch to identify atrial fibrillation."
12/24/19 No Meeting - Winter Holiday
12/31/19 No Meeting - Winter Holiday
01/07/20 No Meeting - Intersession
01/14/20 No Meeting - Intersession
01/21/20 Rhanderson Cardoso "Associations of Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplement Use With Cardiovascular Disease Risks: Meta-analysis of 10 Trials Involving 77 917 Individuals."
01/28/20 Shutong Du "Association of Solid Fuel Use With Risk of Cardiovascular and All-Cause Mortality in Rural China."
02/04/20 Carine Hamo "Sex Differences in Blood Pressure Trajectories Over the Life Course."
02/11/20 Hyunju Kim "Association of Aspirin Use for Primary Prevention With Cardiovascular Events and Bleeding Events: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis."
02/18/20 No information available
02/25/20 Anum Minhas "Modifiable risk factors, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in 155 722 individuals from 21 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study."
03/03/20 No Meeting - AHA/Epi
03/10/20 Yumin Gao "Association of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality With High Levels of Physical Activity and Concurrent Coronary Artery Calcification"
03/17/20 No Meeting - Spring Break
03/24/20 Special Session
Bill McEvoy, MD will lead a discussion on the peer review process for his paper:
Association of Isolated Diastolic Hypertension as Defined by the 2017 ACC/AHA Blood Pressure Guideline With Incident Cardiovascular Outcomes
03/31/20 Special Session
Eliseo Guallar, MD will lead a discussion on the peer review process from an editor's perspective.
04/07/20 Special Session
Esther Kim will lead a discussion on risk factors for ARDS and death in COVID-19 patients.
04/14/20 Emily Hu "Alcohol abstinence in drinkers with atrial fibrillation"
04/21/20 Yun Soo Hong "Association of Cardiac Injury With Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 in Wuhan, China"

"Cardiovascular Implications of Fatal Outcomes of Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)"
04/28/20 Xiao Hu "Preliminary Estimates of the Prevalence of Selected Underlying Health Conditions Among Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 — United States, February 12–March 28, 2020"

"Garg S, Kim L, Whitaker M, et al. Hospitalization Rates and Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019 — COVID-NET, 14 States, March 1–30, 2020"
05/05/20 Special session focused on writing and peer review
05/12/20 Special session focused on writing and peer review
2018-2019
Date Presenter Topic
09/04/18 Elizabeth Selvin "Trends in racial/ethnic and nativity disparities in cardiovascular health among adults without prevalent cardiovascular disease in the United States, 1988 to 2014."
09/11/18 Molly Jung "Association Between Playing American Football in the National Football League and Long-term Mortality."
09/18/18 Olive Tang "Relationship between Clinic and Ambulatory Blood-Pressure Measurements and Mortality."
09/25/18 Kathryn Foti "Effect of a Behavioral Intervention for Underserved Preschool-Age Children on Change in Body Mass Index."
10/02/18 Emily Hu "Association of Cardiovascular Health Level in Older Age With Cognitive Decline and Incident Dementia."
10/09/18 Susanna Qiao "Effect of Aspirin on All-Cause Mortality in the Healthy Elderly."
10/16/18 Sel Hwahng "Association of Clinical and Social Factors With Excess Hypertension Risk in Black Compared With White US Adults."
10/23/18 Lin Wang "Sulfonylureas as second line drugs in type 2 diabetes and the risk of cardiovascular and hypoglycaemic events: population based cohort study."
10/30/18 Jennifer Jia "Biases in electronic health record data due to processes within the healthcare system: retrospective observational study."
11/06/18 Frances Wang "Association Between Baseline LDL-C Level and Total and Cardiovascular Mortality After LDL-C Lowering."
11/13/18 Jiangmiao Long "Association of Gestational Diabetes With Maternal Disorders of Glucose Metabolism and Childhood Adiposity."
11/20/18 Minghao Kou "Long-term mortality after blood pressure-lowering and lipid-lowering treatment in patients with hypertension in the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial (ASCOT) Legacy study: 16-year follow-up results of a randomised factorial trial."
11/27/18 Tiange Liu "Benefits and Harms of Antihypertensive Treatment in Low-Risk Patients With Mild Hypertension."
12/04/18 Yumin Gao "Smoking Cessation, Weight Change, Type 2 Diabetes, and Mortality."
12/11/18 Amelia Wallace "Respiratory andcardiovascular responses to walking down a traffic-pollutedroad compared with walking in a traffic-free area inparticipants aged 60 years and older with chronic lung orheart disease and age-matched healthy controls: arandomised, crossover study."
12/18/18 Xuejuan Ning

"Association of Frequency of Organic Food Consumption With Cancer Risk: Findings From the NutriNet-Santé Prospective Cohort Study."

Invited Commentary: "Organic Foods for Cancer Prevention—Worth the Investment?"

12/25/18 No Meeting - Winter Holiday
01/01/19 No Meeting - Winter Holiday
01/08/19 No Meeting - Intersession
01/15/19 No Meeting - Intersession
01/22/19 Yang Yin "Association of Bariatric Surgery vs Medical Obesity Treatment With Long-term Medical Complications and Obesity-Related Comorbidities."
01/29/19 Anam Tariq "Kidney Damage Biomarkers and Incident Chronic Kidney Disease During Blood Pressure Reduction: A Case–Control Study."
02/05/19 Siddhi Umarje  "Annual Risk of Major Bleeding Among Persons Without Cardiovascular Disease Not Receiving Antiplatelet Therapy."
02/12/19 Laura Skow "Alcohol consumption and risk of dementia: 23 year follow-up of Whitehall II cohort study."
02/19/19 Aozhou Wu  "Effect of Intensive vs Standard Blood Pressure Control on Probable Dementia: A Randomized Clinical Trial."
02/26/19 Yvonne Commodore-Mensah  "Association of a Negative Wealth Shock With All-Cause Mortality in Middle-aged and Older Adults in the United States."
03/05/19 Yifei Lu  "Associations of Smoke-Free Policies in Restaurants, Bars, and Workplaces With Blood Pressure Changes in the CARDIA Study."
03/12/19 Xintong Li  "Alcohol intake in relation to non-fatal and fatal coronary heart disease and stroke: EPIC-CVD case-cohort study."
03/19/19 No Meeting - Spring Break
03/26/19 Hannah Kim "Association of Coffee Drinking With Mortality by Genetic Variation in Caffeine Metabolism."
04/02/19 Justin Chun "Association of Midlife Diet With Subsequent Risk for Dementia."
04/09/19 Esther Kim "Effect of a Home-Based Wearable Continuous ECG Monitoring Patch on Detection of Undiagnosed Atrial Fibrillation."
04/16/19 Zhi Yu "Role of obesity in smoking behaviour: Mendelian randomisation study in UK Biobank."
04/23/19 Special session focused on writing and peer review
04/30/19 Special session focused on writing and peer review
05/07/19 Special session focused on writing and peer review
05/14/19 Special session focused on writing and peer review
2017-2018
Date Presenter Advisor Article
08/29/17 Elizabeth Selvin   "Association of coffee consumption with total and cause-specific mortality among nonwhite populations."
09/05/17 Kathryn Foti Elizabeth Selvin "Prevalence of Elevated Cardiovascular Risks in Young Adults: A Cross-sectional Analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys."
09/12/17 Esther Kim Kuni Matsushita "Association between active commuting and incident cardiovascular disease, cancer, and mortality: prospective cohort study."
09/19/17 Zhe Xu Casey Rebholz "Association of changes in diet quality with total and cause-specific mortality."
09/26/17 Sirtaj Bir Singh Noel Mueller "Clinical efficacy and safety of achieving very low LDL-cholesterol concentrations with the PCSK9 inhibitor evolocumab: a prespecified secondary analysis of the FOURIER trial."
10/03/17 Jowanna Malone   "Cardiometabolic abnormalities among normal-weight persons from five racial/ethnic groups in the United States: a cross-sectional analysis of two cohort studies."
10/10/17 Yifei Lu Moyses Szklo "Patterns of sedentary behavior and mortality in U.S. middle-aged and older adults: a national cohort study."
10/17/17 Molly Jung Elizabeth Selvin "Effect of a Community Health Worker–Led Multicomponent Intervention on Blood Pressure Control in Low-Income Patients in Argentina: A Randomized Clinical Trial."
10/24/17 Karly Murphy   "Antiinflammatory Therapy with Canakinumab for Atherosclerotic Disease."
10/31/17 Mingyu Zhang Noel Mueller "Sugar- and artificially sweetened beverages and the risks of incident stroke and dementia."
11/07/17 Jingyao Hong   "Hospital admissions for myocardial infarction and stroke before and after the trans-fatty acid restrictions in New York."
11/14/17 Arlinda Deng   "Frequency of evidence-based screening for retinopathy in type 1 diabetes."
11/21/17 Caroline Liu Elizabeth Selvin "Body-weight fluctuations and outcomes in coronary disease."
11/28/17 Sibyl Medabalimi   "Mortality from different causes associated with meat, heme iron, nitrates, and nitrites in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study: population based cohort study."
12/05/17 Tiange Liu   "Potential U.S. population impact of the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association High Blood Pressure Guideline."
12/12/17 Yun Soo Hong   "Risk of Cerebrovascular Events in 178 962 Five-Year Survivors of Cancer Diagnosed at 15 to 39 Years of Age."
12/19/17 Weijia Wang   "Relationship Between Lifelong Exercise Volume and Coronary Atherosclerosis in Athletes."
01/23/18 Zhi Yu   "Association of history of gestational diabetes with long-term cardiovascular disease risk in a large prospective cohort of US Women."
01/30/18 Peggy Ning   "Association of noncigarette tobacco product use with future cigarette smoking among youth in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, 2013-2015."
02/06/18 Xintong Li   "Validity of cardiovascular data from electronic sources."
02/13/18 Yijing Feng   "Acute myocardial infarction after laboratory-confirmed influenza infection."
02/20/18 Yvonne Commodore-Mensah   "Accuracy of cardiovascular risk prediction varies by neighborhood socioeconomic position: a retrospective cohort study."
02/27/18 Olive Tang Elizabeth Selvin "Effect of individualized vs standard blood pressure management strategies on postoperative organ dysfunction among high-risk patients undergoing major surgery."
03/06/18 Zhan Shi   Not listed
03/27/18 Tessa Novick   Not listed
04/03/18 Yujia Qiao   Not listed
04/10/18 Steve Menez Morgan Grams Not listed
2016-2017
Date Presenter Advisor Topic
09/06/16 Elizabeth Selvin   "Fresh Fruit Consumption and Major Cardiovascular Disease in China."
09/13/16 Molly Jung Casey Rebholz
Elizabeth Selvin
"Body-Mass Index in 2.3 Million Adolescents and Cardiovascular Death in Adulthood."
09/20/16 Alexandra Lee Elizabeth Selvin Not listed
09/27/16 Alex Secora Caleb Alexander
Josef Coresh
Morgan Grams
"Weight Loss and Health Status 3 Years after Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents."
10/04/16 Usama Bilal Thomas Glass Not listed
10/11/16 Michelle Johansen Rebecca Gottesman
Josef Coresh
Elizabeth Selvin
"Occurrence of death and stroke in patients in 47 countries 1 year after presenting with atrial fibrillation: a cohort study."
10/18/16 Scott McClure Lawrence Appel
Elizabeth Selvin
"Spot urine sodium measurements do not accurately estimate dietary sodium intake in chronic kidney disease."
10/25/16 Sunjae Bae Dorry Segev
Josef Coresh
"Risks of Myocardial Infarction, Death, and Diabetes in Identical Twin Pairs With Different Body Mass Indexes."
11/01/16 Kathryn Foti Elizabeth Selvin "Association of the magnitude of weight loss and changes in physical fitness with long-term cardiovascular disease outcomes in overweight or obese people with type 2 diabetes: a post-hoc analysis of the Look AHEAD randomised clinical trial."
11/08/16 Ning Ding Kuni Matsushita
Josef Coresh
"Cardiovascular event rates and mortality according to achieved systolic and diastolic blood pressure in patients with stable coronary artery disease: an international cohort study."
11/15/16 Shengyuan Luo Roberta Scherer "Low Systolic Blood Pressure and Vascular Mortality Among More Than 1 Million Korean Adults."
11/22/16 Sirtaj Singh Noel Mueller "Genetic Risk, Adherence to a Healthy Lifestyle, and Coronary Disease."
11/29/16 Eugenia Wong Stephan Ehrhardt "Using social and mobile tools for weight loss in overweight and obese young adults (Project SMART): a 2 year, parallel-group, randomized, controlled trial."
12/06/16 Emily Hu Casey Rebholz
Terri Beaty
"Dietary Guideline Adherence Index and Kidney Measures in the Framingham Heart Study." 
12/13/16 Agusto Cesar de Moraes Moyses Szklo "Diabetes and Cause-Specific Mortality in Mexico City."
12/20/16 Xintong He   "Trajectory of body shape in early and middle life and all cause and cause specific mortality: results from two prospective US cohort studies."
12/27/16 No Meeting - Winter Holiday
01/03/17 No Meeting - Winter Holiday
01/10/17 No Meeting - Interession
01/17/17 No Meeting - Interession
01/24/17 Roberta Florido   "High-sensitivity cardiac troponin, statin therapy, and risk of coronary heart disease."
01/31/17 Mingyu Zhang   "Association between air pollution and coronary artery calcification within six metropolitan areas in the USA (the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution): a longitudinal cohort study."
02/07/17 Esther Kim   "Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of heart failure in four European countries: nested case-control study."
02/14/17 Jennifer Motter   "Association Between Rotating Night Shift Work and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Among Women."
02/21/17 Weija Wang Moyses Szklo "Alcohol abuse and cardiac disease."
02/28/17 Soo Hong Yun   "Racial Differences in Associations of Blood Pressure Components in Young Adulthood With Incident Cardiovascular Disease by Middle Age: Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study." 
03/07/17 Yifei Lu   "Reductions in Atherogenic Lipids and Major Cardiovascular EventsClinical Perspective."
03/14/17 Zhe Xu   "Combined associations of body weight and lifestyle factors with all cause and cause specific mortality in men and women: prospective cohort study."
03/21/17 No Meeting - Spring Break
03/28/17 Nikita Stempniewicz   "Serum Levels of Apolipoproteins and Incident Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Cohort Study.”
04/04/17 Rekha Kambhampati   "Bone Mineral Density and Risk of Heart Failure in Older Adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study."
04/11/17 Stephanie Toth-Manikowski   "Association Between Dietary Factors and Mortality From Heart Disease, Stroke, and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States."
04/18/17 Lena Matthews   Not listed
04/25/17 Heather Wasik   Not listed
2015-2016
Date Presenter Advisor Topic
09/01/15 Elizabeth Selvin   "Consumption of spicy foods and total and cause specific mortality: population based cohort study."
09/08/15 Usama Bilal Thomas Glass "Longitudinal Associations Between Neighborhood Physical and Social Environments and Incident Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)."
09/15/15 Alexandra Lee Elizabeth Selvin "Metabolically healthy obesity and the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes: the Whitehall II cohort study."
09/22/15 Andreea Rawlings Elizabeth Selvin "Incidence, Cause, and Comparative Frequency of Sudden Cardiac Death in National Collegiate Athletic Association Athletes: A Decade in Review."
09/29/15 Menglu Liang Elizabeth Selvin "Long-term prognosis in patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus after coronary artery bypass grafting."
10/06/15 Emmanuel Quaye Josef Coresh "Troponin and Cardiac Events in Stable Ischemic Heart Disease and Diabetes."
10/13/15 Junichi Ishigami Kuni Matsushita Not listed
10/20/15 Saul Feinstein Elizabeth Selvin "Effect of Lifestyle-Focused Text Messaging on Risk Factor Modification in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial."
10/27/15 Emma (Zihe) Zheng Josef Coresh "Birth weight and later life adherence to unhealthy lifestyles in predicting type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort study."
11/03/15 Lawrence Appel   Special Centennial Journal Club
"A Clinical Trial of the Effects of Dietary Patterns on Blood Pressure."
11/10/15 Aozhou Wu Josef Coresh Special Centennial Journal Club
"Serum cholesterol in young men and subsequent cardiovascular disease."
11/17/15 Yan Chen Mara McAdams Demarco
Morgan Grams
"Healthy Aging 5 Years After a Period of Daily Supplementation With Antioxidant Nutrients: A Post Hoc Analysis of the French Randomized Trial SU.VI.MAX."
11/24/15 Scott Pilla Nisa Maruthur "A Randomized Trial of Intensive versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control."
12/01/15 Pablo Martinez Jennifer Schrack "Physical activity and all-cause mortality across levels of overall and abdominal adiposity in European men and women: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Study (EPIC)."
12/08/15 Scott McClure Lawrence Appel
Elizabeth Selvin
"Effect of Allowing Choice of Diet on Weight Loss: A Randomized Trial."
12/15/15 Manging Liu Eliseo Guallar "Normal-Weight Central Obesity: Implications for Total and Cardiovascular Mortality."
12/22/15 No Meeting - Winter Holiday
12/29/15 No Meeting - Winter Holiday
01/05/16 No Meeting - Intersession
01/12/16 No Meeting - Intersession
01/19/16 Anthony Nastasi Jennifer Schrack "Continuous decline in mortality from coronary heart disease in Japan despite a continuous and marked rise in total cholesterol: Japanese experience after the Seven Countries Study."
01/26/16 Molly Jung Casey Rebholz
Elizabeth Selvin
"Guideline-Based Statin Eligibility, Coronary Artery Calcification, and Cardiovascular Events."
2012-2013
Date Presenter Advisor Topic
09/04/12 Elizabeth Selvin   "Association of Coffee Drinking with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality."
09/11/12 Julie Bower E. Selvin "Egg Yolk Consumption and Carotid Plaque."
09/18/12 Anna Poon E. Selvin "Effects on 11-year mortality and morbidity of lowering LDL cholesterol with simvastatin for about 5 years in
20,536 high-risk individuals: a randomised controlled trial."
09/25/12 Seamus Whelton J. Coresh "Secondary Prevention and Mortality in Peripheral Artery Disease: National Health and Nutritional Examination Study."
10/02/12 Sunil Agarwal J. Coresh "High-sensitivity troponin < 3 ng/L ruled out acute myocardial infraction."
10/09/12 Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin S. Golden "Longitudinal analysis of sleep in relation to BMI and body fat in children: the FLAME study."
10/16/12 Poojitha Balakrishnan L. Kao "Childhood Adiposity, Adult Adiposity, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors."
10/23/12 Chiadi Ndumele   Practice Presentation for AHA
“Obesity is Independently Associated with Elevated hs-cTnT Levels and Risk of Heart Failure: The ARIC Study.”
10/30/12 Jingwan Tan Farzadegan "Dopamine agonist use and the risk of heart failure."
11/06/12 Darcy Weidemann L. Appel "Blood Pressure in Early Adulthood, Hypertension in Middle Age, and Future Cardiovascular Disease Mortality: HAHS (Harvard Alumni Health Study)."
11/13/12 Eleni Liapi Diener-West "Multivitamins in the Prevention of Cancer in Men: The Physicians' Health Study II Randomized Controlled Trial."
11/20/12 Laura Cobb L. Appel "Changes in Diet and Lifestyle and Long-Term Weight Gain in Women and Men."
11/27/12 Christina Parrinello E. Selvin "Association of Weight Status With Mortality in Adults With Incident Diabetes."
12/04/12 Youssef Farag E. Selvin "Screening for type 2 diabetes and population mortality over 10 years (ADDITION-Cambridge): a cluster-randomised controlled trial."
12/11/12 Ryan Kahn Zirkin "Minimum amount of physical activity for reduced mortality and extended life expectancy: a prospective cohort study."
12/18/12 Annie Griffioen D'Souza "Myocardial Infarction and Sudden Cardiac Death in Olmsted County, Minnesota, Before and After Smoke-Free Workplace Laws."
12/25/12 No Meeting - Winter Holiday
01/01/13 No Meeting - Winter Holiday
01/08/13 No Meeting - Intersession
01/15/13 No Meeting - Intersession
01/22/13 Ashley Harris E. Selvin
N. Maruthur
"Racial Differences in the Impact of Elevated Systolic Blood Pressure on Stroke Risk."
01/29/13 Michelle Zikusoka W. Post "Statins, Risk of Diabetes, and Implications on Outcomes in the General Population."
02/05/13 Alex Chang L. Appel "Body Mass Index in 1.2 Million Adolescents and Risk for End-Stage Renal Disease."
02/12/13 Tanvir Hussain L. Cooper
C. Pollack
"Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Autopsy-Determined Atherosclerosis Among US Service Members, 2001-2011."
02/19/13 Priya Palta S. Golden
R. Crum
"Trends in Serum Lipids among US Youths Aged 6 to 19 Years, 1988-2010."
02/26/13 Miranda Jones A. Navas-Acien "Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Quality of Life in Patients with Heart Failure."
03/05/13 Jingwen Tan Segal
Alexander
"Dopamine agonist use and the risk of heart failure."
03/12/13 Julie Bower   Practice Presentation for AHA EPI
"The Association of Lifestyle Factors With Circulating Levels of the Soluble Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products (sRAGE): The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study."
03/19/13 No Meeting - Spring Break
03/26/13 Meredith Foster J. Coresh "21st-Century Hazards of Smoking and Benefits of Cessation in the United States."
04/02/13 Catherine Hwang L. Liu "Long-Term Cardiovascular Risk of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Use According to Time  
Passed After First-Time Myocardial Infarction: A Nationwide Cohort Study."
04/09/13 Matt Gribble A. Navas-Acien
Fallin
"A Trial of Sugar-free or Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Body Weight in Children."
04/16/13 Eliseo Guallar   Special Session
"The Peer Review Process: From the Editor's Desk"
04/23/13 Andreea Rawlings E. Selvin "Melatonin Secretion and the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes."
04/30/13 Yoon Sung R. Crum "Risk of Fetal Death after Pandemic Influenza Virus Infection or Vaccination."
05/07/13 Karan Tandon E. Selvin "Intestinal microbial metabolism of phosphatidylcholine and cardiovascular risk."
05/14/13 Elizabeth Selvin   Special Session
"The Peer Review Process: From the Author's Desk"
2011-2012
Date Presenter Advisor Topic
08/30/11 Elizabeth Selvin   "Smoking, Smoking Cessation, and Risk for Symptomatic Peripheral Artery Disease in Women: A Cohort Study."
09/06/11 Julie Bower Elizabeth Selvin "Sports-related sudden death in the general population."
09/13/11 Stephen Juraschek Pete Miller "Sodium and Potassium Intake and Mortality Among US Adults: Prospective Data From the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey."
09/20/11 Adrienne Tin Linda Kao "Long-term Renal Outcomes of Patients With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Microalbuminuria: An Analysis of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications Cohort."
09/27/11 Seamus Whelton Josef Coresh "Effect of a Dietary Portfolio of Cholesterol-Lowering Foods Given at 2 Levels of Intensity of Dietary Advice on Serum Lipids in Hyper-lipidemia: A Randomized Controlled Trial."
10/04/11 Rosemay Remigio-Baker Sherita Golden 
Moyses Szklo
"Change in prevalence of chronic conditions between childhood and adolescence among extremely low-birth-weight children."
10/11/11 Mariana Lazo Jeanne Clark "General and Abdominal Obesity and Risk of Death among Black Women."
10/18/11 Lisa Wyman David Celentano "Low-Risk Lifestyle Behaviors and All-Cause Mortality: Findings From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III Mortality Study."
10/25/11 Poojitha Balakrishnan Hunter Young "Physical Activity Before and During Pregnancy and Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A meta-analysis. Diabetes Care."
11/01/11 Michael Collaco Lawrence Appel "Exposure to Environmental Microorganisms and Childhood Asthma."
11/08/11 Meredith Foster   Practice Presentation for ASN
11/15/11 Monica Giles Fred Brancati
Sherita Golden
"Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes — A Randomized Social Experiment."
11/22/11 Lisa Noguchi Taha Taha "ADHD Drugs and Serious Cardiovascular Events in Children and Young Adults."
11/29/11 Laura Cobb Lawrence Appel
Cheryl Anderson
"Comparative Effectiveness of Weight-Loss Interventions in Clinical Practice."
12/06/11 Anne Griffioen Terri Beaty "Early assessment of cancer outcomes in New York City firefighters after the 9/11 attacks: an observational cohort study."
12/13/11 Nadine Alexander Cheryl Anderson "Effect of early intensive multifactorial therapy on 5-year cardiovascular outcomes in individuals with type 2 diabetes detected by screening."
12/20/11 No Meeting - Winter Holiday
12/27/11 No Meeting - Winter Holiday
01/03/12 No Meeting - Intersession
01/10/12 No Meeting - Intersession
01/17/12 No Meeting - Intersession
01/24/12 Anna Poon Elizabeth Selvin "Combined Lifestyle Factors and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Chinese Men and Women: The Singapore Chinese Health Study."
01/31/12 Kerunne Ketlogetswe Elizabeth Selvin
Wendy Post
"A prospective natural-history study of coronary atherosclerosis."
02/07/12 Tanya Johns Ebony Boulware
Cheryl Anderson
"Sjostrom L, et al. Bariatric Surgery and Long-term Cardiovascular Events."
02/14/12 Hirad Yarmohammadi Eliseo Guallar "The Relationship Between Visit-to-Visit Variability in Systolic Blood Pressure and All-Cause Mortality in the General Population: Findings From NHANES III, 1988 to 1994."
02/21/12 Ghanshyam Palamaner Hunter Young "Serial Changes in Highly Sensitive Troponin I Assay and Early Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction."
02/28/12 Ali Hamedani Gail Daumit "Level of Systolic Blood Pressure Within the Normal Range and Risk of Recurrent Stroke."
03/06/12 Stephen Juraschek   Practice Presentation for AHA EPI
"Nontraditional and Standard Biomarkers for the Identification of Persons with Hyperglycemia."
03/13/12 Julio Lamprea Moyses Szklo
Ebony Boulware
"Ambient Air Pollution and the Risk of Acute Ischemic Stroke."
03/20/12 No Meeting - Spring Break
03/27/12 Justine Springer Youfa Wang "Weight Loss, Exercise, or Both and Physical Function in Obese Older Adults."
04/03/12 Meredith Foster Josef Coresh
Linda Kao
"Relationship of Urinary Bisphenol A Concentration to Risk for Prevalent Type 2 Diabetes in Chinese Adults: A Cross-sectional Analysis."
04/10/12 Charles Brown Richey Sharrett "Incidence of Aortic Complications in Patients with Bicuspid Aortic Valves."
04/17/12 Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin Cheryl Anderson "Dietary Supplements and Mortality Rate in Older Women: The Iowa Women's Health Study."
04/24/12 Dr. Christine Laine, Editor in Chief of Annals of Internal Medicine   Special Presentation
"The Peer Review Process: From the Editor’s Desk"
05/01/12 Tara Taylor Jean Ford "Lifetime risks of cardiovascular disease."
05/08/12 Mara McAdams DeMarco   "Differential risk of death in older residents in nursing homes prescribed specific antipsychotic drugs: population based cohort study."
05/15/12 Elizabeth Selvin   Special Presentation
"The Peer Review Process: From the Author's Desk"
2010-2011
Date Presenter Advisor Topic
08/31/10 Elizabeth Selvin   "Association between adiposity in midlife and older age and risk of diabetes in older adults."
09/07/10 Andrea Christman E. Selvin "Clinical, laboratory and histological associations in adults with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease."
09/14/10 Mara McAdams J. Coresh "Other Cardiovascular Risk factors, and Premature Death."
09/21/10 Matthew Gribble Fallin "Arsenic exposure from drinking water, and all-cause and chronic-disease mortalities in Bangladesh (HEALS): a prospective cohort study."
09/28/10 Julie Bower E. Selvin "Regional Variations in Diagnostic Practices."
10/05/10 Miranda Jones A. Navas-Acien "Population Trends in the Incidence and Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction."
10/12/10 Lisa Wyman E. Selvin "Worldwide mortality in men and women aged 15–59 years from 1970 to 2010: a systematic analysis."
10/19/10 Kunihiro Matsushita E. Selvin
J. Coresh
"Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Implantation for Aortic Stenosis in Patients Who Cannot Undergo Surgery."
10/26/10 Catherine Campbell Post & Kao "Association of temporal trends in risk factors and treatment uptake with coronary heart disease mortality, 1994-2005."
11/02/10 Tammy M. Brady P. Miller "A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Early versus Late Initiation of Dialysis."
11/09/10 Jonathan Rubin J. Coresh Practice Presentation for AHA
"The Relationship between Resting Heart Rate and Incidence and Progression of Coronary Artery Calcification: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis"
11/16/10 Corinne Keet T. Beaty "Newborn Hearing Screening vs Later Hearing Screening and Developmental Outcomes in Children with Permanent Childhood Hearing Impairment."
11/23/10 Stephen Juraschek P. Miller "n–3 Fatty Acids and Cardiovascular Events after Myocardial Infarction."
11/30/10 Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin Anderson "White Rice, Brown Rice, and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in US Men and Women."
12/07/10 Salman Waheed J. Coresh "Heavy Smoking in Midlife and Long-term Risk of Alzheimer Disease and Vascular Dementia."
12/14/10 Priya Palta Chaves
S. Golden
"Association of Serial Measures of Cardiac Troponin T Using a Sensitive Assay With Incident Heart Failure and Cardiovascular Mortality in Older Adults."
12/21/10 No Meeting - Winter Holiday
12/28/10 No Meeting - Winter Holiday
01/04/11 No Meeting - Intersession
01/11/11 No Meeting - Intersession
01/18/11 No Meeting - Interession
01/25/11 Adrienne Tin Kao "Aspirin Is Beneficial in Hypertensive Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Post-Hoc Subgroup Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial."
02/01/11 Julio Lamprea M. Szklo
B. Astor
"Long-term Statin Use and the Risk of Gallstone Disease: A Population-based Case-Control Study."
02/08/11 Nisa Maruthur   "Genetic Ancestry in Lung-Function Predictions."
02/15/11 Pete Miller   "C-reactive Protein Concentration and the Vascular Benefits of Statin Therapy: An Analysis of 20536 Patients in the Heart Protection Study."
02/22/11 Jonathan Rubin E. Selvin
J. Coresh
"A Prospective Natural-History Study of Coronary Atherosclerosis."
03/01/11 Erin Dahlinghaus Fadrowski "Cardiac outcomes in a cohort of adult survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer: retrospective analysis of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort."
03/08/11 JingWen Tan Farzadegan "Reporting and Interpretation of Randomized Controlled Trials With Statistically Nonsignificant Results for Primary Outcomes."
03/15/11 Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin   Practice Presentation for AHA EPI
"Diabetes medication use and blood lactate level among persons with type 2 diabetes in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Carotid MRI Study."
03/22/11 No Meeting - Spring Break
03/29/11 Teresa Chen B. Astor "Racial variation in medical outcomes among living kidney donors."
04/05/11 Niru Putcha Diette "Worldwide burden of disease from exposure to second-hand smoke: a retrospective analysis of data from 192 countries."
04/12/11 Hali Hambridge R. Crum "Collaborative Care for Patients with Depression and Chronic Illnesses."
04/19/11 Loni Ajagbe Anderson "Effect of a Free Prepared Meal and Incentivized Weight Loss Program on Weight Loss and Weight Loss Maintenance in Obese and Overweight Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial."
04/26/11 Rosemay Remigio-Baker S. Golden
M. Szklo
"Plasma Clusterin and the Risk of Alzheimer Disease. "
05/03/11 Eliseo Guallar   Special Presentation
"The Peer Review Process: From the Editor’s Desk.” 
05/10/11 Hirad Yarmohammadi B. Astor "Absolute and Attributable Risks of Atrial Fibrillation in Relation to Optimal and Borderline Risk Factors: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study."
05/17/11 Elizabeth Selvin   Special Presentation
"The Peer Review Process: From the Author's Desk"

"Racial differences in glycemic markers: a cross-sectional analysis of community-based data."
2009-2010
Date Presenter Advisor Topic
09/01/09 Elizabeth Selvin   "Epidemiologic Study of In-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Elderly."
09/08/09 Julia Scialla L. Appel "Bicarbonate Supplementation Slows Progression of CKD and Improves Nutritional Status."
09/15/09 Mara McAdams J. Coresh "Kidney function and risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality in women: a prospective cohort study."
09/22/09 Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin Anderson "Factors Explaining Excess Stroke Prevalence in the US Stroke Belt."
09/29/09 Rosemay Remigio-Baker S. Golden "Consistency With the DASH Diet and Incidence of Heart Failure."
10/06/09 Scott Bussell M. Carlson "Novel and Conventional Biomarkers for Prediction of Incident Cardiovascular Events in the Community."
10/13/09 Mika Mage  T. Taha "The Preventable Causes of Death in the United States: Comparative Risk Assessment of Dietary, Lifestyle, and Metabolic Risk Factors."
10/20/09 Josef Coresh   Practice Presentations for ASN
"GFR Estimating Equations: Moving From Accuracy to Risk Classification"
10/27/09 Renata Arrington Sanders   "H1N1 2009 influenza virus infection during pregnancy in the USA."
11/03/09 Kunihiro Matsushita E. Selvin
J. Coresh
Practice Presentations for AHA
"The Association of Hemoglobin A1c With Incident Heart Failure Among Persons Without Diabetes: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study"
11/10/09 Lauren Loeffler S. Furth "Timing and Tempo of First-Year Rapid Growth in Relation to Cardiovascular and Metabolic Risk Profile in Early Adulthood."
11/17/09 Sonal Singh   "Imaging strategies for detection of urgent conditions in patients with acute abdominal pain: diagnostic accuracy study."
11/24/09 No Meeting - Thanksgiving Holiday
12/01/09 Anand Narayan J. Coresh "Cardiovascular Effect of Bans on Smoking in Public Places: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis."
12/08/09 Melania Bembea S. Furth "Salt intake, stroke, and cardiovascular disease: meta-analysis of prospective studies."

"EDITORIAL: The case for population-wide salt reduction gets stronger."
12/15/09 Morgan Grams J. Coresh
B. Astor
Practice Presentations for American Society of Transplant Surgeons meeting
"Expanded criteria donor kidneys: Are the patients who are listed for them those who would benefit?"  
12/22/09 No Meeting - Winter Holiday
12/29/09 No Meeting - Winter Holiday
01/05/10 No Meeting - Intersession
01/12/10 No Meeting - Intersession
01/19/10 No Meeting - Break Between Terms
01/26/10 Sanjay Rampal E. Guallar "Association Between Type of Dietary Fish and Seafood Intake and the Risk of Incident Type 2 Diabetes: The European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC)-Norfolk cohort study."
02/02/10 Jonathan Rubin J. Coresh "Dietary pattern and depressive symptoms in middle age."
02/09/10 No Meeting - Snow Cancellation
02/16/10 Miranda Jones A. Navas-Acien "Secondhand smoke, vascular disease, and dementia incidence: findings from the Cardiovascular Health Cognition Study."
02/23/10 Saul Blecker J. Coresh Practice Presentations for AHA-CVD EPI
"Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Risk of Cardiovascular and Non-Cardiovascular Hospitalizations"
03/02/10 Julio Lamprea M. Szklo
B. Astor
"Albuminuria in chronic heart failure: prevalence and prognostic importance."
03/09/10 Di Zhao P. Miller "The benefits of statins in people without established cardiovascular disease but with cardiovascular risk factors: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials."
03/16/10 Ana Navas-Acien   "Association of perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctane sulfonate with serum lipids among adults living near a chemical plant."
03/23/10 No Meeting - Spring Break
03/30/10 Suheir Khajuria L. Niessen "Effects of Intensive Blood-Pressure Control in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus."
04/06/10 Matthew Lewis P. Stickland "Race/Ethnicity, Quality of Care, and Outcomes in Ischemic Strokeclass."
04/13/10 Andrea Christman S. Golden
E. Selvin
"Prognostic significance of visit-to-visit variability, maximum systolic blood pressure, and episodic hypertension."
04/20/10 Pranav Barve R. Sharrett "Comparison of Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy and Radiofrequency Catheter
Ablation in Patients With Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
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04/27/10 Anisha Talpade J. Yeh "10-Year Follow-Up of Diabetes Incidence and Weight Loss in the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study."
05/04/10 Eliseo Guallar & Christine Laine, Editor of Annals of Internal Medicine   Special session: The Peer-Review Process: From the Editor’s Desk  
05/11/10 Abhishek Payal H. Wilcox "Outcomes with concurrent use of clopidogrel and proton-pump inhibitors: a cohort study."

"Propensity score adjustment with multilevel data: setting your sites on decreasing selection bias."
05/18/10 Elizabeth Selvin   Special Session: "The Peer-review Process: The Author Responds"   
2008-2009
Date Presenter Topic
09/09/08 Mariana Lazo "Coronary calcium as a predictor of coronary events in four racial or ethnic groups."
09/16/08 Kunihiro Matsushita "Effect of Cyclosporine on Reperfusion Injury in Acute Myocardial Infarction."
09/23/08 Diedra Crews "Preeclampsia and the Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease."
09/30/08 Steve Sozio "Association of urinary bisphenol A concentration with medical disorders and laboratory abnormalities in adults."
10/07/08 Martin Laclaustra "Analyses of cancer data from three ezetimibe trials."
10/14/08 Clarissa Jonas "Effect of Allopurinol on Blood Pressure of Adolescents with Newly Diagnosed Essential Hypertension: A Randomized Trial."
10/21/08 Lisa Wyman "Influenza Vaccination and Risk of Community-acquired Pneumonia in Immunocompetent elderly people: a Population-based, nested Case-control Study."
10/28/08 Josef Coresh "Cystatin C as a Risk Factor for Outcomes in Chronic Kidney Disease."
11/04/08 Mara McAdams "Impact of statin use on outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft surgery."
11/11/08 Mimi Huizinga "10-year Follow-up of Intensive Glucose Control in Type 2 Diabetes."
11/18/08 Nrupen Bhavsar "Rosuvastatin to Prevent Vascular Events in Men and Women with Elevated C-Reactive Protein."

"Expanding the Orbit of Primary Prevention--Moving Beyond JUPITER."

"The JUPITER Trial: Will You Change Your Practice?"
12/02/08 Rehan Qayyum Pickett CA, et al. Carotid bruits as a prognostic indicator of cardiovascular death and myocardial infarction: a meta-analysis. Lancet 2008; 371:1587-1594.
12/09/08 Cozumel Pruette, "High Body Mass Index for Age Among US Children and Adolescents."
12/16/08 Saman Nazarian "Variants conferring risk of atrial fibrillation on chromosome 4q25."
01/06/09 Muhammad Amer "Use of Multiple Biomarkers to Improve the Prediction of Death from Cardiovascular Causes."
01/13/09 Priscilla Auguste "Evaluation of the Framingham Risk Score in the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer-Norfolk Cohort."
01/27/09 Maria Tellez "CARE Study Group. Maternal Caffeine Intake During Pregnancy and Risk of Fetal Growth Restriction: A Large Prospective Observational Study."
02/10/09 Reza Alavi "Vascular events in healthy older women receiving calcium supplementation: randomised controlled trial."
02/17/09 Deanna Green "Association between paracetamol use in infancy and childhood, and risk of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema in children aged -6-7 years: analysis from Phase Three of the ISAAC programme."
02/24/09 Saul Blecker "Effect of rosuvastatin in patients with chronic heart failure (the GISSI-HF trial): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial."
03/03/09 Kunihiro Matsushita "Rapid Kidney Function Decline and Mortality Risk in Older Adults."
03/10/09 Priya Palta "Comparison of weight-loss diets with different compositions of fat, protein, and carbohydrates."
03/24/09 Tanjala Purnell "Long-Term Consequences of Kidney Donation."
03/31/09 Deanna Cettomai "Body-mass index and cause-specific mortality in 900 000 adults: collaborative analyses of 57 prospective studies."
04/07/09 Julia Scialla "Rosuvastatin and Cardiovascular Events in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis."
04/14/09 Rama Salhi "Caffeine Consumption and the Risk of Breast Cancer in a Large Prospective Cohort of Women."
04/21/09 Yiyi Zhang "Racial Differences in Incident Heart Failure among Young Adults."
04/28/09 Temitope Olufade "Depressive Symptoms, Health Behaviors, and Risk of Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease."
05/05/09 Miranda Jones "Smoke-free legislation and hospitalizations for acute coronary syndrome."
05/12/09 Lauren Graham "Rehospitalizations among Patients in the Medicare Fee-for-Service Program."
05/19/09 Steven Chen "Use of Framingham risk score and new biomarkers to predict cardiovascular mortality in older people: population based observational cohort study."
05/26/09 Rashmi Kumar, MD "Metabolic syndrome and salt sensitivity of blood pressure in non-diabetic people in China: a dietary intervention study."
2007-2008
Date Presenter Topic
09/11/07 Josef Coresh "Use of a continuous-flow device in patients awaiting heart transplantation."
09/18/07 Mariana Lazo Fasting compared with nonfasting triglycerides and risk of cardiovascular events in women."
09/24/07 Andy Menke "Effects of Aerobic Training, Resistance Training, or Both on Glycemic Control in Type 2 Diabetes."
10/02/07 Marcia Varella Birth Weight and Systolic Blood Pressure in Adolescence and Adulthood: Meta-Regression Analysis of Sex-and Age-speci?c Results from 20 Nordic Studies."
10/09/07 Bethany Barone "Effect of exercise training on endothelium-derived nitric oxide function in humans."
10/16/07 Edwina Yeung "Parental occurrence of premature cardiovascular disease predicts increased coronary artery and abdominal aortic calcification in the Framingham Offspring and Third Generation cohorts."
11/06/07 Kunihiro Matsushita "Comparison of circulating adiponectin and proinflammatory markers regarding their association with metabolic syndrome in Japanese men."
11/13/07 Stella Yi "Physical activity and reduced risk of cardiovascular events: potential mediating mechanisms."
11/27/07 Nisa Maruthur "Using Pedometers to Increase Physical Activity and Improve Health: A Systematic Review."
12/04/07 Sarah Stark Casagrande "Cause-specific excess deaths associated with underweight, overweight, and obesity."
12/11/07 Joachim Bleys "Effect of high-dose a-tocopherol supplementation on biomarkers of oxidative stress and inflammation and carotid atherosclerosis in patients with coronary artery disease."
12/18/07 Anna Kottgen "Clustered environments and randomized genes: A fundamental distinction between conventional and genetic epidemiology."

"Sequence variations in PCSK9, low LDL, and protection against coronary heart disease."
01/08/08 Deidra Crews "Health of previously uninsured adults after acquiring Medicare coverage."
01/15/08 Raquel Charles "Rate of Solid-Organ Wait-listing, Transplantation, and Survival Among Residents of Rural and Urban Areas."
01/22/08 Nrupen Bhavsar "Cystatin C and risk of heart failure in the Physicians' Health Study (PHS)."
01/29/08 Lori Bash "Low birth weight increases risk for end-stage renal disease."
02/05/08 Stephen Sozio "The relationship between nontraditional risk factors and outcomes in individuals with stage 3 to 4 CKD."
02/12/08 Jared Reis "Cardiorespiratory fitness and adiposity as mortality predictors in older adults."
02/19/08 Juan Rivera "Cardiovascular Events During World Cup Soccer."
02/26/08 Laura Balsassari "Lipid-lowering therapy and peripheral sensory neuropathy in type 2 diabetes: the Fremantle Diabetes Study."
03/11/08 Ruben Hernaez "Body-mass index and incidence of cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective observational studies."
03/25/08 Audrey Chu "Adaptations to Climate in Candidate Genes for Common Metabolic Disorders."
04/08/08 Kesha Baptiste-Roberts "A randomized trial of the effects of dietary counseling on gestational weight gain and glucose metabolism in obese pregnant women."
04/15/08 Adam Naj "Meta-Analysis of 23 Type 2 Diabetes Linkage Studies from the International Type 2 Diabetes Linkage Analysis Consortium."
04/22/08 Manuel Franco "Abdominal obesity and the risk of all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality: sixteen years of follow-up in US women."
04/29/08 Alejandro Castro "Kidney function is related to cerebral small vessel disease."
05/06/08 Exam Prep: CVD/Clinical Epi COmprehensive Exam, Part 2
"Increasing Cardiovascular Disease Burden Due to Diabetes Mellitus: The Framingham Heart Study."
05/13/08 Miguel Vilaplana "Inequity of access to investigation and effect on clinical outcomes: prognostic study of coronary angiography for suspected stable angina pectoris."
05/20/08 Juan Rivera "Cardiovascular events during World Cup soccer."
2006-2007
Date Presenter Topic
09/12/06 Josef Coresh "Cystatin C and prognosis for cardiovascular and kidney outcomes in elderly persons without chronic kidney disease."
09/19/06 Edwina Yeung "Adiponectin and coronary heart disease: a prospective study and meta-analysis."
09/26/06 Journal Club participants are invited to attend a seminar given by Gail Laughlin, PhD, a faculty candidate in Cardiovascular Epidemiology. She will be presenting "The Molecular Basis of Sex Differences in Coronary Heart Disease: Two hormone candidates." 
Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research
2024 E. Monument St., Suite 1-500, Conference Room Q
10/03/06 Stella Yi "Green Tea Consumption and Mortality Due to Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, and All Causes in Japan."
10/10/06 Nina Paynter "Reduction in the incidence of acute myocardial infarction associated with a citywide smoking ordinance."
10/17/06 Lori Bash "Effect of ACAT Inhibition on the Progression of Coronary Atherosclerosis."
10/24/06 Joe Kim "Relationship between Clinical Performance Measures and Outcomes among Patients Receiving Long-Term Hemodialysis."
11/14/06 Alejandro Castro "Statin Therapy and Risks for Death and Hospitalization in Chronic Heart Failure."
11/21/06 No Meeting - Thanksgiving Holiday
11/28/06 Manuel Franco "Effects of a Mediterranean-Style Diet on Cardiovascular Risk Factors."
12/05/06 Ruben Hernaez "Effects of rosiglitazone on the frequency of diabetes in patients with impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glucose: a randomised controlled trial."
12/12/06 Marcia Varella "Patterns of growth among children who later develop type 2 diabetes or its risk factors."
01/09/07 Anna Kottgen "A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies IL23R as an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Gene."
01/16/07 Mariana Lazo "Relationship Between Adherence to Evidence-Based Pharmacotherapy and Long-term Mortality After Acute Myocardial Infarction."
01/23/07 Eliseo Guallar "Multiple biomarkers for the prediction of first major cardiovascular events and death."
01/30/07 Joachim Bleys "Greater fish, fruit, and vegetable intakes are related to lower incidence of venous thromboembolism: the Longitudinal Investigation of Thromboembolism Etiology. Circulation. 2007 Jan 16;115(2):188-95."
02/06/07 Audrey Chu "Combining information from common type 2 diabetes risk polymorphisms improves disease prediction."
02/27/07 Joe Kim "Development and Validation of Improved Algorithms for the Assessment of Global Cardiovascular Risk in Women: The Reynolds Risk Score."
03/06/07 Pete Miller "Mortality in Randomized Trials of Antioxidant Supplements for Primary and Secondary Prevention."
03/20/07 Andy Menke "Siesta in Healthy Adults and Coronary Mortality in the General Population. Arch."
03/27/07 Bethany Barone "The Effect of School on Overweight in Childhood: Gain in Body Mass Index During the School Year and During Summer Vacation."
04/03/07 Nisa Marathur "Increasing Cardiovascular Disease Burden Due to Diabetes Mellitus: The Framingham Heart Study."
04/10/07 Ana Navas-Acien "Calcium/Vitamin D supplementation and cardiovascular events."

"The urgent need to recommend an intake of vitamin D that is effective."
04/24/07 Raquel Charles "Chronic Kidney Disease Associated Mortality in Diastolic Versus Systolic Heart Failure: A Propensity Matched Study."
05/01/07 Laura Baldassari "Influence of Computer-aided Detection on Performance of Screening Mammography."
05/17/07 Stephen Crawford "Interleukin-1-receptor antagonist in type 2 diabetes mellitus."
05/22/07 Tariq Shafi "Diagnostic Thresholds for Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Based on 10-Year Cardiovascular Risk."
2005-2006
Date Topic
09/13/05 "Impact of Varicella Vacination on Health Care Utilization" (JAMA. 2005 Aug 17; 294(7):797-802) 
09/20/05 "Angiotensin-converting enzyme insertion/deletion genotype, exercise, and physical decline" (JAMA. 2005 Aug 10;294(6):691-8)
09/27/05 "Atorvastatin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes undergoing Dialysis" (NEJM, July 2005; 353:238-48)
10/04/05 "Cystatin C and the Risk of Death and Cardiovascular Event Among Elderly Persons" (NEJM, May 2005; 352(20):2049-60)
10/11/05 "Trends in the Leading Causes of Death in the United States, 1970-2002" (JAMA. Sept. 2005. 294 (10): 1255-9)
10/18/05 "Inconsistencies between actual and estimated blood alcohol concentrations in a field study of college students: do students really know how much they drink?" (Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2005 Sep;29(9):1672-6)
10/25/05 Effect of Muraglitazar on Death and Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus" (JAMA, 2005 Oct)
11/01/05 No article: Several students, fellows, and faculty will present drafts of their posters for the American Society of Nephrology meeting
11/08/05 No article: Fellows and faculty will present their work for the upcoming American Heart Association meeting
11/15/05 "Trajectories of growth among children who have coronary events as adults." NEJM 353;17:1802-9
11/22/05 "Efficacy and safety of cholesterol-lowering treatment: Prospective meta-analysis of data from 90 056 participants in 14 randomised trials of statins" Lancet 2005; 366: 1267–78
11/29/05 "Acute Kidney Injury, Mortality, Length of Stay, and Costs in Hospitalized Patients" Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 16: 3365–3370, 2005
12/06/05  "Effects of long-term fenofibrate therapy on cardiovascular events in 9795 people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (the FIELD study): randomised controlled trial" Lancet 2005; 366: 1849-61

After FIELD: should fibrates be used to prevent cardiovascular disease in diabetes?" Lancet 2005; 366: 1829-31
12/13/05 "C-reactive protein and its role in metabolic syndrome: mendelian randomisation study" Lancet 2005; 366: 1954–59.
12/20/05 "Obesity and the risk of myocardial infarction in 27 000 participants from 52 countries: a case-control study" Lancet 2005; 366: 1640-49
01/10/06 "A Moderate and Transient Deficiency of Maternal Thyroid Function at the Beginning of Fetal Neocorticogenesis Alters Neuronal Migration" Endocrinology 2004; 145(9):4037-47
01/17/06 "Disciplinary Action by Medical Boards and Prior Behavior in Medical School" N Engl J Med 2005; 353: 2673-82
01/24/06 "Associations of Neighborhood Characteristics With the Location and Type of Food Stores" Am J Public Health; 2006;96:1–8
01/31/06 "Body Mass Index and Risk for End-Stage Renal Disease" Ann Intern Med. 2006;144:21-28
02/07/06 "Randomised placebo controlled multicentre trial to assess short term clarithromycin for patients with stable coronary heart disease: CLARICOR trial." BMJ 2006 Jan 7;332(7532):22-7
02/14/06 "Low-Fat Dietary Pattern and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: The Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial." JAMA. 2006; 295: 655-666
02/21/06 "Low Effect of inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system and other antihypertensive drugs on renal outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis." Lancet. 2005 Dec 10;366(9502):2026-33
03/07/06 "Stem Cell Mobilization by Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Randomized Controlled Trial” JAMA. 2006;295:1003-1010.

Editorial “Attempts to Recruit Stem Cells for Repair of Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Dose of Reality” JAMA, March 1, 2006; 295:1058-60
03/14/06 Special: Dr. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD, Professor of Family & Preventive Medicine, in the Cancer Prevention & Control Program at UCSD will be talking about the challenges of implementing the Rancho Bernardo study.
03/21/06 No Meeting - Spring Break
03/28/06 "Use of a dummy (pacifier) during sleep and risk of sudden infeant death syndrome (SIDS): population based case-control study."
04/04/06 "Combined Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy and Cardiovascular Disease: Toward Resolving the Discrepancy between Observational Studies and the Women’s Health Initiative Clinical Trial"
04/11/06 "Body Weight and Mortality Among Men and Women in China."  

"Combined Analysis of Women's Health Initiative Observational and Clinical Trial Data on Postmenopausal Hormone Treatment and Cardiovascular Disease" 
04/18/06 Cancelled
04/25/06 "Risks and benefits of omega 3 fats for mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: systematic  review"
05/02/06 "Prediction of lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease by risk factor burden at 50 years of age"
05/09/06 "Sodium Intake and Mortality in the NHANES II: Follow-up Study"
05/16/06 "The Incidence of Congestive Heart Failure in Type 2 Diabetes: An Update"
05/23/06 "Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor or Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Antagonist Therapy Is Associated with Prolonged Patient and Graft Survival after Renal Transplantation"